Rob Manuel's 81 Jokes for the ZX81 is a sewn hardback of gags he illustrated himself with nothing but the Sinclair ZX81's character set, out 3 December from Spelk Press.
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Rob Manuel's 81 Jokes for the ZX81 is a sewn hardback of gags he illustrated himself with nothing but the Sinclair ZX81's character set, out 3 December from Spelk Press.
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Independent lab Agentic Thinking Ltd ran nine planted-secret tests against 25 AI coding-agent harnesses and published which ones read, sent or ran what they shouldn't, with seven vendor disclosures made public so far.
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The open-source aqr tool unpacks files that were already compressed by weaker encoders, recompresses their contents with stronger models, and ships the WebAssembly decoders inside the archive; on a 10 GB benchmark it came in at 2.63 GB against tar plus zstd's 4.68 GB.
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Huntress says attackers used a compromised camera management application as their way into several customer networks in September and October, then loaded their malware through a legitimate Windows parental-controls file placed in the wrong folder.
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Over Labor Day weekend 1995, the founder of AuctionWeb, the site that became eBay, listed a laser pointer he said didn't work even with new batteries; it opened at $1 and sold for $14.83 to a Canadian named Mark Fraser.
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Working from a 94-page line-printer listing found in Simon's archive, the team rebuilt the program on a modern Lisp, matched its published output, and did the same for Richard Waters's 1984 KBEmacs.
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Title V of the copyright law is the Vessel Hull Design Protection Act, which protects the designs of boat hulls.
Bethesda opened its wasteland with midnight sales at about 2,000 stores. Within days it had shipped about 4.7 million copies worth over $300 million at retail, 55 percent of them on Xbox 360.
IBM offered $190 a share in cash, about $34 billion, and announced it on a Sunday.
Meta shut down the standalone Facebook Gaming app just over two years after it launched in April 2020. Apple had rejected it several times before letting it into the App Store, so it was a short run for a long wait.
1956: A hard drive: 3.75 MB. Today: 44 TB. IBM's 350 RAMAC held 3.75 MB on fifty 24-inch disks in a 5-by-6-foot unit that weighed over a ton; Seagate's Mozaic 4+ drives ship at up to 44 TB, and 44,000,000 MB divided by 3.75 MB is about 11.7 million times as much.
